Gorakhpur Urban (Assembly constituency)

Gorakhpur Urban
Gorakhpur Urban
Constituency; for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
District	Gorakhpur
State	Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA	Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
Reservation	None

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Gorakhpur Urban is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gorakhpur Urban in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Gorakhpur Urban is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gorakhpur (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 322 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Radha Mohan Das Agarwal who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Rana Rahul Singh by a margin of 60,730 votes.^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly[edit]

Year	Member
1951	Istafa Hussain	Indian National Congress
1957	Istafa Hussain
1962	Niyamatullah Ansari
1967	Udai Pratap Dubey	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1969	Ram Lal Bhai	Indian National Congress
1974	Awadhesh Kumar Srivastava	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1977	Awadhesh Kumar Srivastava	Janata Party
1980	Sunil Shastri	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1985	Sunil Shastri	Indian National Congress
1989	Shiv Pratap Shukla	Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993
1996
2002	Radha Mohan Das Agarwal	Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha
2007		Bharatiya Janata Party
2012
2017

Election results[edit]

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
Party		Candidate	Votes
	BJP	Yogi Adityanath
	SP
	BSP
	INC
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	[[\|N/A]] hold		Swing

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agarwal	1,22,221	55.85
	INC	Rana Rahul Singh	61,491	28.10
	BSP	Janardan Chaudhary	24,297	11.10
	PECP	Arun Kumar Srivastava	2,252	1.03
	RLD	Vinod Kumar Rai	946	0.43
	NOTA	None of the Above	839	0.38
Majority			60,730	27.75
Turnout			2,19,439	51.12
	BJP hold		Swing

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agarwal	81,148	49.19
	SP	Raj Kumari Devi	33,694	20.42
	BSP	Divesh Chandra Srivastava	23,811	14.43
	INC	Narendra Mani Tripathi	11,171	6.77
	PECP	Dr. Vijay Kumar	2,187	1.33
Majority			47,454	28.77
Turnout			1,64,973	46.19
	BJP hold		Swing

References[edit]

↑ "Gorakhpur Urban constituency; BJP's Radha Mohan Das takes on Congress' Rana Rahul Singh". www.financialexpress.com. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
↑ "Gorakhpur Urban Election Results 2017: Radha Mohan Das Agrawal of BJP Leading". News18. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
↑ "गोरखपुर शहरी विधानसभा चुनाव 2018 परिणाम, उत्तर प्रदेश". NDTV Khabar. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
↑ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

[1] "Gorakhpur Urban constituency; BJP's Radha Mohan Das takes on Congress' Rana Rahul Singh". www.financialexpress.com. Retrieved 7 November 2018.

[2] "Gorakhpur Urban Election Results 2017: Radha Mohan Das Agrawal of BJP Leading". News18. Retrieved 7 November 2018.

[3] "गोरखपुर शहरी विधानसभा चुनाव 2018 परिणाम, उत्तर प्रदेश". NDTV Khabar. Retrieved 7 November 2018.

[4] "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

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